Table 1.
Technology categories and single technologies
| Category | Examples of single technologies |
|---|---|
| A) Remote health measurements (attached to older people) | Measurements of vital signs or weight at home are automatically transferred to care information systems |
| B) Monitoring technologies | Sleep, activity and nutrition monitoring |
| C) Technologies installed in the apartment | Home condition measurements: temperature, humidity, lights, safety monitoring system at home |
| D) Safety-increasing solutions | Wearable safety solution with GPS localisation, medicine-dispensing robot, medicine reminder, monitoring falling |
| E) Solutions supporting social activity | Virtual peer groups and coffee groups, social robot |
| F) Solutions supporting rehabilitation | Games activating performance, physical and memory activity solutions, exercise equipment |
| G) Technologies for care professionals | Electronic homecare optimising system, exoskeletons, virtual homecare or consultation visits, Virtual Reality–based training |
| H) IoT and integration platforms | Data from devices, applications and services at home are collected on a platform to be further analysed by care professional or AI |